Mediagazer: Journalism Study Makes For Miserable Reading (The Huffington Post)

3:40 PM ET, March 18, 2013

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The Washington Post to charge frequent users of its Web site — This summer, The Washington Post will start charging frequent users of its Web site, asking those who look at more than 20 articles or multimedia features a month to pay a fee, although the company has not yet decided how much it will charge.

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: The Washington Post Is Building a Paywall (With a Huge Hole)

BBC:

Press regulation deal struck by parties — David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband claim victory in Leveson deal — A deal has been struck between the three main political parties on measures to regulate the press, Labour has said. — Leader Ed Miliband said the deal would protect …

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Patrick Wintour / Guardian:

Press regulation deal: the key points — The main sticking points in the post-Leveson discussions that were ironed out during late-night discussions — • The royal charter — The royal charter will be entrenched through statute so that it cannot be changed by ministers …

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Phone-hacking victims give press regulation deal cautious welcome — Cross-party agreement on Leveson plan seen as historic opportunity to draw line under decades of Fleet Street excess — Victims of press intrusion have given a cautious welcome to the press regulation plan agreed early …

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Newspaper groups threaten to boycott new press regulator

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Nearly one-third of U.S. adults have abandoned a news outlet due to dissatisfaction — Readers, viewers and listeners may not have followed the contraction of the news business closely, but they're beginning to notice the effects of five dismal years for many publishers.

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The Huffington Post: Journalism Study Makes For Miserable Reading

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Circulation down, challenges up at alt-weeklies

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Patrick Wensink / Salon:

My Amazon bestseller made me nothing — My novel shot to the top of the site's bestseller list last summer. You won't believe how little I got paid — In one more week I was going to be a millionaire. — At least, that was the rumor circulating around my wife's family.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

The rewards of risk-taking — The New York Times reports that Time magazine's March 4 issue, which featured Steven Brill's 24,000-word health care story, is on track to become its best-selling cover in almost two years, more than doubling the usual number of copies sold.

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
Time's Health Care Opus Is a Hit

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Steve Coll named dean of Columbia Journalism School — Steve Coll, the decorated Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker staff writer, has been named dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. — He replaces Nick Lemann, a fellow New Yorker writer who announced last October he would be stepping …

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Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:

Inside Forbes: Amid the Finger Pointing, Journalists Need to Explore New Payment Models — I spent eight years at AOL and I'll say this: I saw none of the great, all of the bad and some of the good. Throughout, the media took dead aim at our strategic zig-zags and revolving-door CEOs.

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Keach Hagey / Digits:

NBCNews.com Snags Yahoo News Editor-in-Chief Amid First Wave of Hires — NBCNews.com will not be another web portal. — That's the message in the first batch of hires that the new site announced Monday, nine months after it was created following the end of the 16-year joint venture between between NBC and Microsoft.

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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

Verizon Sends Signal on TV Fees — FiOS Operator Presses Smaller Media Firms for Deals Based on Audience Size — Verizon Communications Inc. is proposing to shake up the pay-television business based on a simple premise: it wants to tie the fees it pays to carry TV channels to how many people actually watch them.

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Jim Romenesko:

GOP leader thinks Will McAvoy is a real news anchor — Will McAvoy tweeted: “When will the media stop talking about the politically irrelevant Sarah Palin at CPAC? I'm devoting the hour to that topic tonight!” — That didn't go over well with National Republican Policy Chairman and self-described …

David Corn / Mother Jones:

Iraq 10 Years Later: The Deadly Consequences of Spin — Those who questioned the case for war have won the fight over history. But that won't bring back the tens of thousands of lives lost. — President Bush announcing the invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003. Paul Morse/White House

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Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post: Iraq War 10th Anniversary Reminds Us Of The Questions We Didn't Ask

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Publisher Jesse Angelo is restructuring the money-losing New York Post's revenue operation — For years, Jesse Angelo had been a rising star in the editing ranks of Rupert Murdoch's Australian, British and U.S. tabloids. — Now, fresh off his doomed voyage as editor of News Corp's tablet title …

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